The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

~~+~~ AND c:IIHME/10/AL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, o'CLooK. As intim a t e d some days since, Two the Stock Ex. change has been closed to-day by order of the comft kittee. In the general Disount Market there continues to be a very active demand for money both at the Bank and in Lombard -street, and 6 per cent, is the current rate for even the finest paper, although there is a slight increase in the supply of capital. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £299,900, and the exports to £576,077. The share certificates of the Baugparah Tea t states Company will be exchanged for the bankers' receipts on and after Tuesday CIE Xt, The directors of the Assam "Company have an tounced an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent., payable on the 24th inst. There were no bullion operations at the Bank )Yesterday. A slight downward movement took place in the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. Messrs T. Travers and Sons, in their weekly cit.. %fiat., make the following remarks on the Money Market at the close of the year :—" It is remark ! tibia that, atter all the anxiety and pressure of the I Year, and the apprehension that was at one time * Xpressed in several quarters that the worst would not be witnessed until November and December, We now find ourselves actually restored to what may almost be considered a normal position. The bullion in the Bank is about £lOO,OOO in egress of its amount at the same date of 1 863, and the reserve is stronger by half .11 million—while, at the same time, there le the important consideration that the tendency, tulike that which prevailed last Christmas. is still towards improvement. But it is not the position of the Money Market on this side, favourable though it be, that is the chief cause of congratula hon. Twelve months ago the bullion in the Batik Of France was reduced to a point lower than had ever been known and with such a fact in view, there could be no hope of money remaining even in moderate supply in London. Now the bullion in the Bank of France is double the amount at which It then stood, and the rate of discount at that establishment was accordingly reduced on Thursday to 4i per cent., a state of ease not experienced at any time within the past year and 4 quarter. In London the rate still remains at 6 Per cent., and no expectation is entertained that s ty fresh reduction will be adopted until the be ginning of the year, but unless some wholly tulooked4or change of tone should occur in the Interval, there seems every probability that a return t o 6 per cent. may t h en b e temporarily witnessed. Whether during the year 1865 any continuance of moderate rates can be looked for is a point that will be regarded with much doubt." The following is Messrs Mecatta and Goldsmid's liet of the latest prices of bullion :—Bar gold, 1 7e 9d per cz standard; do Parting, 77s 11d; doubloons, Spanish, 74s to 75s per oz; do Mexican end South American, 73s 9d to 745; United States e agles, 76s 211 to 3d; bar silver, 5s lid to Id per 3 t standard, nothing doing; do,:containing 5 grains °f gold and upwards, Se lid; Mexican dollars 630 1 d per oz, last price. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Der Cent. Consols ,uo Acco un t, Jan. 10 Per Cent. Reduced BSt a Veld 3 per Cent. B Bl / 8 W 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894... . — , Do 5 p er C en t., J an. 1873 — 'marmites, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 — U 0 for 30 yrs, ex pi re sth Ap r il, 1885 - k 00 (R e d S ea T e l egrap h), A ug. 1908 — Xhequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4:per Cent par 3 pni Do £6OO .. - Do £lOO and £2OO Sank England Stk, 5i per Ct. — 0 Account.. I IN DIAN GOV ERNMENT S ECURITIES. ritlia Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 Shut Lo Account Do 6 per Cent. July, 1670 .... 0 3 Account . Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 — Do 61 per Cent. ' May, 1879 .. Do 4 p er Cent., Aug. 1866 Du Bondekl,ooo --• 0 0 under £1,000.. A FOREIGN FUN DS--CLOSING PRICES atria n O D per :. a zilian 5 per Cent •• • — •uo 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ..... - i t Do 1863 .. 83 -4 enos A yres 6 per Cent 1: ?'° Account.... , — elliau 6 per Cent. — e l orabian 6 per Cent — 4 1 3 0., 6 per Cent. 12-'0 6 per Cent, 1864 - ‘4.,,ish 3 per Cent. ' 1825 1 15 0 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — pm Ilslador New Consolidated, 1 per Ce nt ., 1 / 4 0, Provisonal Land Warrant.. tptian 7 per Cent • 951 6 h o, Second Issue "0 £IOU Bonds 1 , Do 1864 .. 94/ 6 Vo . S . crip, £l5 paid , _ i;ek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex - Coupons., ,`-'0 Account ......... .... 231 4j° C ou pon® D 4 e Account — I,lsaternala 5 per Cent. (t.",.0 1839 and 1859 Vuan 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway ; elican 3 per Cent .... b 0 Account PDo 1864.. o 6 per Cent. Anglo-French die ~1 0 Scrip, 453 paid.... lkt i o Prznoh Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d 4,, ° /t3h Imperial 5 per Cent ' 4 v Granada 13 ,0 2 per Cent. .. ~ `;'o Deferred "„ 0 Land Warrants (Hectares) .. D 0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861.. kik Do do Aug., 1866.... I ruvian 41 per Cent .. 1)0 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — • D O h 41 per Cent., 1862 1 , ,,", 0 Account.... — "rEagliese 3 per Cent., 1863 D. ••• DO 3 Account — ."`° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 — BDO Account 4Bl 71 Lo 4} .5 per ent., C CentlBso . . 871 1822, £ St., BB/ 7 1) 0 "0 41 per 1860 — D 0 3 Dper Cent en 1859 — ° 5 per Ct, 1862 0 1864.... — 881 D k t 0 Scrip, £65 paid h t dinian 5 per Cent (V° Account r i apish 3 per Cent ..... — ° Account i', o ° New Deferr e d ',' Account s . ,'o Passive V° Account 321 a a , V o li Cert. of Coup not funded — 1 ,, edish A ccount e t tl 4 per Cent. — tish 6 per Cent. 1864 L° Account 0 0 0 Iper Cent... 1858 D7olmount 0 £lOO Bonds D ° 6 per Cent. 1862 D° Account t i ° £lOO Bonds... 721 / h o 6 p er C en t. 1862 .. — ',,,"'„° Guaranteed, 4 per C0nt..... i e luela 3 per Cent. 1) 0 Account - D° 6 per Cent., 1862 11 Account b ° 6 p Cent., 1864 ° 4 per Cent ,k 4 Dividends on the above payable in London , 4 %t it tlan, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. °i4 l ll 4} per Cent., Ex, 25f... — 1:),.," . . 2 1 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil — t. "% Per Cent. Certificates ti.,*lch A •All - ...ewes, 3 per Cent ........ el, 5 per Cent 1861 Ex. 25 francs.. 0 A, ' 9 ' , 0,..., count • 641 ,Nrian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. *altos°, 6 per Cent., Ex. 26f ,1 THREE O'CLOCK. 11 401 I)„ lel Money. ' 'Lccouw... ........ 1 4. I‘4 ) , 4T AL ACCIDENT IN A CHAPEL. —On Thursday ( !lest was held in Myddelton-stre e t, Cl erkenwell, ilkillody of M r S am uel Harri s , age d 61 years, a master 4! e nd undertaker, who lost his life whil s t engaged in I;''',le a Ci s t ern a t W oo db r id ge I n d ependent Chapel 4 1, :1 1° 41. Ythought th e t rus t ees o f th e c h ape l were to blame LtEti et w ing . such a ladder to b 3 in use. They returned a of "Accide n t a l d ea th." Th e coroner ordered the ILA t o be d estroyed. 7 , 4 3 , igtfALE HERO.--An octogenarian named "N'tPerriog, has died at Burnham. The old lady was etql, doh her fir s t h us b an d at the battle of Trafalgar, of fi e n exterminated the navies of France and Spain. k i t l l 4t lQ •eritly recounted ma n y o f t h e most stirring events 1 , t 4 14 Period, and was never tired of telling that she 4 te t he bl oo d f rom the shirt which the gallant admiral 4 ' 41 he re ce i ve d h i s fatal wound. MARKET , TB, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Bir.. Wol., and S tr. Val !fly - the and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ... Cork and Bandon Corn wa 11 Do A A gets no dly Do. B ti 11 6p c.p au. has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Junc.i 'Dun.,Pertli,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. , Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock ... Ditto EastAnglian at GreatNorthof Scotland Great. Northern Do A stook Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Weston ,Orig,inal Do Str Val e . ua. stool( Do. South Wales Do. West Mid. :Oxford . 1 all 100 Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire; London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast,' Lon., Chat., and Dover; Lon. & Norf - h Western' Lon. & So•4th Western' Man., Shet., & Lincoln.l Maryport and Carlisle Do t shares Metropolitan Midland Do Birming. & Derby! Slid. (it. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid !teat 89 131 i North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee' Nth. Eastern—Berwio, Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carliele Do. Stook. AT, Darling Do do 1855-58 Do do Id :u,-61 •••• Railways. p aid. Closing Business Price. I done. all all } all all North London Do New Do New, 1884. North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Soottish Central Soot A. E. Aber. stoc:,l Do Soot. Mid. stook Shrews. and Welohpool . Shropshire Union South South Eastern stainer, Wok.,andWok Taff Vale.. Do C Vale of Neath Waterford 4 Eilkenny, West Corn wall W. Uartlepool ':OLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECi) RETIE' -- Brittsh Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 1 100 - - -- Do. do. 1883.... 100 - - - + .Gov. 6 p.e.Ja 66,1 ut: 1877-84 - Do. Ap. c. Feb & Auk,. 101 97 99 - Do. 6p. o. Mar dr Sept 101, 97 99. - Do. Ep. o. Jan &July. 10, 88 90 - Do. 5 Inscribed stool, 100 88 89 - ape G.ll ope, 8 p 0,187: 100 03 105 107 - Do.Ap &Oct. 188( 100 116 108 106 k - Do. 189, Li: 116 108 - - -... .3-.-... a a=4 7 . 1891. 100 • 109 111 - ;eyion, Nov.l .6S, 6p • 10 , 101 104 - ~...o. 1878, do. 10 ,, ( 9 112 - Aauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 05 107 - Do. 1878 10 'O6 109 - Do. .862 130 116 108 , -.• Vatal Gov. 6 per cent.. 106 t'.4 116 - sl.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.3zJul) 101 98 101 - si. S.W. Gov. 5 p 3.,18„+ 106 98 100 - Do. sp. c.,lBti to L,t 100 95 97 - Do. d0.,1888 & upwd 100 94 96 912 51 - Yew Zealand O p cent 100 105 107 \lova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. - sterling, 1875 loi 99 101 100 - /ueensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 104 105 11041 / - ~Aus GOv. 6 p.c.1t68- 100 - - - Do. 170 &upward 4 lOl 107 toa - Vic. Gov. 6 p,c. Ja.3rJuly 100 - - - Do. lo 8 p.c. Ao.&00 1 100 1106 107 BRITISH MINES. 2 ambrtan Consol. Gold 1 - Chiverton - )(Word Amalgamated - 3 33 - Vvon G. Cons. (Tavist 5BO 600 - Drakewal Is .. .. - ~ l bli Bassett (Illogan) .A, 47 49 - Past Caradou ..... - -',,st Carn Brea 3.4 .,, 61 7 - East Grenville ... - East Lovell ...... - N. W 'lltussel (Tavistk. 1.11 5 51 - , 4am.&St.Aubyn(Gwen GO 5 7 4 Great Laxey, Urn...' all 18 19 181 - Area Soutu Tot us... 11 2 2lf - l. Wheal Vor(Helston 10 331 341 331 - Irenville - lerc,d's-Foot ‘.l3 15 37 ,- , lingston Downs 4.18.1. 4 4/ - Aargaret (Uny Lelan, ,l 8 9 - arke Valley.. 4 , vnriv Iron Ore (Lim. :A II r; - Nangiles.. .... 29 18 '.. - -ew Setvn 214 00 70 ••• r , rth D own . 3 1 - North Roskear. 291 , 17 19 - Wn 'i iiasset ( I llo.;au 3 .1+ .6 1 2 - orth Wheal Crafty . 2.8 0 2 21 - Prosper United...,, 7.1 . ,. 2 3 - - rovidenee(Uny Ulm lO 6.7 ' 3 36 - , outhCaradon(St.Cleer 12 20 540 ~ Wheal Fran. (illogan 15.18.1 33 36 - stray Park - [in Crort r 16 17 - Nest Basset (Illogan).. 11 . 7 9 71 t - NC , radon (I.lskea r d 2 7 0 - West Chiyer ton - West Seton , Ti ,• • *if 2 06 215 .. W ~,,i heal Basset ogatl ) 5 921 974 - Meal Buller(ltedrutti; 10 9 11 - WhealLueluott ....... . 3.5.1• * 2. - ,V heal Mary Ann ;Men. 8 13 /5 - Wheal 3eton 5Bl ,93 205 - ‘. - i'lleal Tretawney (Lis 7 17 19 - \ Vheal Union 4 i I PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 1(6 Ditto, No. , 106 Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 104 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stock. Ditto, 4i per cent., Blackburn put, 99 it FOREIGN RAIL WAYS. Bahia and San Francisco k ilin.) gua. 7 per oent., Dutch , 21 6 Ottoman ßhenish (Smyrna to Aidin), 101 San Paulo (lim.),lgua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 14 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, i. - 0( West Flanders, 5 7 per cent. pl., 9( BANKs. Alliance nim.t . 1151 4; Ditto, new, 84 31 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 10 is pd 081 Anglo Austrian, ti E Australasia, 68/ Bank of British Columbia, 171 Bank of London. Ditto, new, 21 Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 101 . British and Californian, lira. , 31 British North American, 50 49. Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 341 Chartered tier, of India, London, and China, 62/ : Consolidated Bank, lim., 111 9 European Bank, Rm., 13) Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 21f Ditto, issued at 6 pm., 8. London /I.nk of Maxi.° and S. America, Ilm., 71 London and County, 81 2 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lim.,:111 London Joint Stook, 60 1 Ditto, new 371 London and 11 estminster, PBC National of Liverpool, limited, 19 National Bank, Ditto, new, 81; 1' Soinde, Pulliam), and Delhi. 1111 L, 11 .1 Union of Australia,:s4l 4 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, Bro., 411 Contract corporation, lim., 2 Credit Fonder and Mobilitr of England, Ditto (~f2), 81 East Izidia Irrigation and:Canal, 6 Ebbw Vale, 41 1 Egyptian Com, and Trading, 11111., 5 9 Electric Telegraph, 111 Financial Corporation. ; f Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 61 Hudson's Bay, 169 Humber Iron Works. 4 39 Impordal Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 8 Intern ational Financial Society, lim., 71 91i Joint Stock Discount:llm., ; London Financial Association lim., 249 9 Ditto, new, 231 Lonon General Omnibus London Provincial Marine, 3 Company, 31 Milwall Iron Works 41 National Discount Company, lim., 169 9 Oriental Financial, Jim., 6 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 77} a south Australian Land, 31 1 This Day ?hare 13.14, et St at. 50 40 97 SO 131 132 6 .7 34 86 16 17 89 91 106 108 474 18i 7i 8i i3k 136 156 157 130 132 89 01 79 t9i 67 89 68 60 44 46 100 102 1166 117 83 84 105 106 88 40 120 12 6 97 98 64 86 121 22 1396 140 109 ,11 55 66 256 t6i 114 114! 74 734 lu4 104, 37& 38i 11 12 pl 9 10 120 125 2pl 1 13 79 60 l 0 J; 138 A 2 58 6) 44 46 86 861 8 9 163 168 34 44 p L 9 111 38 40 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. dailways tlantio & St Lawrenc. :om., Barodact•Cent In. Gu. 5 per ocnt... Do. E. shares.. tionalo and Lake Hann, Do. Preference . s offalo , Brant,&Godriel s p. at. bds. Aug. 1, lk"; Do. do. July 1,187 ro. do. Jun., 1. 'lcutta..kS.Eastn. ( L 1, 'apeTown & Dock Ser , Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf rJabtn. Bengal g u. a p. h;ast Indian. fro. 5 p. c Do. do. 3 - Ext..., Grand Trunk of canad, Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist vrel. Bonds... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P, ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th l'ref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... ()tin chaPerau.gua.sp.c Do. G 111. 5 per cen' Do. kiew gua. 5 p. 0... South.of India(Lhn uaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 4i per Cent Do. 00000 • •• It. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New ....... Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited tladrss. guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. o. Extensiot. Do. 44 Do. Fifth Extension. ifelb•Corp. 6 p. o. Bnd. & Hobson's Bay. Newßtunswick Cana: Class A and B. N.ltl•C'das po Ist pf bth &judo .......... Do. Delhi tit Do. do . Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. F1o4) all 100 ( 100 1 100 ( 2 100 Closing Prioe. Paid, 58 60 1026 t 036 idis IP 5 bi 9} 75 80 98 100 8) 83 103 104 104 1,)5 21 22 83 91 70 72 61 44 66 68 56 58 53 54 47 50 30 32 28 30 1031 Io4i pr ip pr 4p 101 103 9 9} 1111 11 88 AO 80 62 1 d 1016 1031 06 98 91 93 59 61 82 84 10: 103 1023 103 i, 103 iP d lOO 95 97 4tVek stook stook 1:0 dtoo Stook stock stock stook stook stook 20 nook stock stock StOOk Wig SV*, LOND(*', SA.TURDAY EVENII;iO, DECEMBER 24, 1864. POLICE IN' 471. 81 134 5i 1551 6 79 1 !116/ 105 6 5 1 97 201 4 1 201 .k. 64k a l 4 1 . 4 114 13 14., 722. 1041 i 59 45 i 85 Business don, 102& 3} 104} 9 8f The defendant was then discharged. An attempt at applause at the conclusion of the magistrate's remarks being got up was instantly repressed. THAMES. THE COMPLIMENTS OP THE SEASON.—Samuel Myers, a cab driver, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with being drunk and inotqable of taking care of himself and his horse and cab. A police-constable named Myers, No. 502 K, saw the prisoner's horse and cab last night in Lincoln-street, Mile end. The prisoner's head was on his horse, and his heels were on his box. He was dead drunk, and he was removed from his ignoble position and put into the cab, which was driven to the green-yard. His master was put to the ex pense of green-yard fees. Please, Sir, said the prisoner, it's Christmas time. Mr Partridge—lf it is that is no reason you should make yourself intoxicated, and endanger your own life and the lives 0 people in the public streets. The prisoner —My fare gave me something to drink be. oause it's Christmas. Mr Partridge—You are fined 63. Henry Uobb, a cabdriver, was next charged with being drunk and incapable: He was driving a fare in Stepney, and nearly overturned his horse and cab. A gentleman in the cab roared out for aid. The horse was stopped and prisoner lifted off the box. Mr Partridge fined the prisoner ss. Henry Love, cabdriver, was charged with a similar offence. A police-constable saw the prisoner at two o'clock this morning near the George public-house, Commeroial• road, very drunk, and quite unable to drive his horse, which fortunately was sober, and proceeded quietly along the road. The Prisoner—l own I was drunk. A gentleman gave me a glass of rum. I suspect it was drugged, for it sewed me up directly. Mr Partridge—Pay 5s for being drunk and incapable. Charles Fox was charged with being drunk and incapable, while in charge of a horse and cab. He was asked for his license and badge. He said he had neither; he was only a horse.keeper, and his master entrusted him with a horse and cab in the absence of the regular man, A gentleman gave him two glasses of whisky, and it had an effect upon him, Mr Partridge—You had no right to drive without a badge. You are fined 40s. Drunken cabmen must be taught to keep sober. Their drunkenness appears to be on the increase. WESTMINSTER. A DRUNKEN CARMAN, AN " ELEVATED " FARE, AND A " GROGGY" HORSE.—Charles Ellis, a cabman, was charged with being drunk and incapable of tattin g oars of his horse and cab late on the previous night. Henry Postern, 284 R, said that he was on duty in the Fulham-road when he saw the horse in defendant's cab coming towards him at a slow rate, and apparently not under control. On its approaching nearer, the defendant fell off the box, and witness picked him up, and, finding he was drunk, conveyed him to the station. In answer to the magistrate, defendant said he had a fare in his cab at the time, It was suggested by the defendant that there was much to cause the offence—the extreme coldness of the weather, the near approach of Christmas, the fact of the liquor hav ing had more than its usual influence, and the presumption that the horse was a little " groggy." Mr Selfe thought it premature to celebrate Christmas bey fore it arrived, and fined defendant 10s, or imprisonment for seven days. Mr Weeks, the fare whom the previous defendant had in his cab, was next charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. Polite-constable Postern said that he found the gentle man in the cab drunk, and seeing he could do nothing with him took him to the police station in the cab. Mr Self° painted out to the defendant that he bad been found in a very awkward position. Defendant said he had been very unfortunate in his selec tion of a cab. Feeling himself a little " elevated" he called a cab in order to be driven home in safety, but had picked a cabman, as it seemed, in a worse condition than himself, whereby both had got into trouble. If the cabman had been sober nothing of the sort would have happened. The de fendant did not consider there was much the matter with him. The police dea'ared that when taken out of the cab at the station he was so intoxicated that he could not give his name and address. He was fined 55., which was immediately paid, but the cabman was locked up. SIIELTON'S ANALYSIS of the various horses en gaged in the Derby, the Oaks, the One Thousand, and Two Thousand Guineas has just been published. It contains, besides the analysis of the four great races, reports from all the principal racing stables. Though small in size, the amount of valuable hints thrown out with regard to the horses engaged in the various races above-mentioned will be found of inestimable value to those wishing to make investments so long before any of the races come off. No one ought to back a horse without previously providing himself with a copy of this useful guide. EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.—The Court of Assizes of Haute-Loire has just been occupied with the trial of a man, named Baptiste Fautry on a charge of fratricide. It appeared from the indictment that the father of the prisoner finding himself too old to manage his pro perty, made a division of it between Urbain and Baptiste (the prisoner), his two sons, and his two sons in law, named Sejalon and Blanc. In August last, when this partition took place, Baptiste considered that he had not been fairly treated, and resolved to avenge himself on his family. On the 20th of August, when all the family were assembled at their evening meal, he entered his room with a double barrelled gun in his hand, and levelling it at his brother Urbain, killed him on the spot ; he then discharged the second barrel at his brother-in-law. Blanc, whom he seriously wounded in the right shoulder. He next attacked his father with a sharp weapon like a lance, which he had prepared for the purpose,and ilflicted severe wounds on the old man. Some persons rushing into the room, in con sequence of an alarm having been given, overpowered the prisoner and gave him into custody, Baptists, when be-. fore the caul, did not attempt to deny the crime imputed to him. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with extenu ating circumstances, and the prisoner was condemned to hard labour for life. BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopathic practitioners and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc trine of homceopathy was first introduced into this country, there were to be obt.fined no preparations of eocoa either at trac"- . [ye to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes throJgh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work, "Food and its Adulteratio.'s," says —"Cocoa contains a great variety of im portant nutritive principles—every ingredi4nt necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." &gain: "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined ilb., Ob., and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by all grocers, couicctioners, and chemists,— [Apyr.] MARLBOROUGH -STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF WILFUL DAMAGE.—Mr Mitchell, a builder, of Warwick-road, Pimlico, was charged, before Mr Knox, with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, a table, and a looking-glass, of the value of £2, the property of Mr Bird, a coffeehouse-keeper, of Green-street, Leicester square. The complainant said—Last evening, about 7 o'clock, the defendant came to my house with a female, and asked for a bed for himself and wife. He was told he could have one, and he was shown into a room and had a fire lit, and di• rectly after he aimed a blow at my wife. I went upstairs, and the defendant then said, " Who are•you, you bully ?" I held the defendant for some time, and he then broke from me and seized the fire-tongs, and we had a scuffle. The defendant then broke a mahogany table and a looking-glass, and went down stairs and broke a large pane of glass in the shop-door. The whole of the damage amounted to £2. The defendant had been drinking. Defendant— Did you not attack me, and ask me if I had had enough ? Complainant—No. Mr Knox-.. What sort of house do you keep? Complainant—A respectable house. I have gentlemen from the country stay with me, and three left last night in consequence of the defendant's conduct. Police -constable 55 C—On going up I saw the com plainant and defendant struggling together. Complainant said defendant had smashed his window. It was a large pane of glass. The defendant had been drinking. Mr Knox—Now, defendant, let me hear your story, Defendant—l was asked by a female to give her a cup of tea, and she took me into a room where there was abed. A fire was then lit by a woman, and 6s demanded of me, with the threat that I should not leave until I had paid it. The complainant was then called up, and he threw me on the bed. I stood on my defence, but although struck several times (the defendant's face bore marks of punishment) sad kicked, I only stood on the defensive, fearing to strike the complainant, as I was in his power. I had a struggle with complainant, and in it the table and Looking•glass were broken. I got out of the room after a quantity of my hair was torn off my head, the complainant's wife striking me as well as the husband. I have the mark of a kick on my leg inflicted by the complainant. At last I broke away, and, on getting out of the door the window of it was broken. I was struggling with_the complainant when the constable came up. Mr. Knox—l have heard quite enough of this case. There is not much doubt what sort of house the complainant keeps, I shall discharge the defindant, and if the com plainant thinks proper he can seek a remedy in another Court. I believe the defendant has been very badly treated, and I will not to interfere. I believe the defendant has told the truth. Day, GARDEN. well supplied with fruit and teady, at the annexed rates : a. d. s d Multerries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 6 Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filbects, per lb .. 0 9to 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Cobnuts, perlb 0 oto 0 0 AlmOnds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0 Peaches, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0 Currants, per la.sv 0 oto 0 Plums, per d 0... 4 6to 5 0 Damsons, pr d 0... 0 oto 0 0 The Yelverton Case. Mrs Yelverton has addressed the following letter to the Weekly .Register : " Sir,—l notice in your columns of Saturday a long space devoted to my case, which is ably and clearly put, save in some particulars which you can• didly admit you are unable to cope with, namely, Scotch law. As one or two of those errors are serious, although inadvertent and natural on your part, will you permit me a short space to rectify them ? In the first place, the suit is not concluded, nor, I regret to say, any way near its termination. Le gally, as well as morally, I am i❑ point of law, Mrs Yelverton, the judgment of the Lords not being as yet extracted, which alone ter minates the case, so far as Scotch law is concerned. That decision does not, as lam advised, annul the Dublin verdict, affect the Irish marriage, or prevent its being proved by direct issue. Considering, therefore, that it has taken five years, in a suit brought against me by my husband —and in which I have merely been defending my self—to obtain a decision in his favour, not yet final, it may probably take the same period when I take the initiative. This may be unpleasant intelligence to some of your readers, who naturally become weary of a long and complicated case; but if, as yon say, in your intercourse, you have found no persons expressing their sympathy and satisfaction with the conclusion of the three law lords, how is it to be expected that I should be content ? The public are dissatisfied because they believe it unjust, but I, the victim, feel it as a legal cruelty, which has no parallel in the annals of this country. That a lady should have a sentence passed upon her, not simply annulling her marriage, but degrading her to the rank of an outcast,so that English journalists consi• der they are entitled to rank her with the classically notorious Phryne, has no counterpart in our judicial records. And for what crime has she merited such a punishment ? Because she was a Catholic, and understood marriage to be a sacrament. She ob tained the sacrament, and thus destroyed the validity of the marriage, owing to a penal law enacted centuries ago for the special persecution of Catholics. I appeal to every Catholic lady, to every Englishwoman, whether I am not bound, in honour and in conscience, to assert my wifehood, and, having asserted, maintain it ? Yes, though my whole life's struggle paid the sacrifice. Before Heaven I am bound to bear witness to the truth of the vows I plighted at the altar, where God was my witness, and not tostand silently by whilst the whole world is scandalised by the startling theory set up by my opponents that Catholic marriages are merely religious farces gone through at pleasure as a c!oak to vice. Am I to allow a Protestant world to suppose that Catholics have forms and ceremo nies which resemble and are little better than the orgies of Vishnu? Yet a judge on the bench be lieved that the sacred joining together of man and wife by a Catholic priest was the most disgraceful and blasphemous thing he had ever heard of. He believed it was a mockery and a farce, and that we Catholics can obtain from our ministers sanction for such things. I ask you, was this an imputation for any Catholic, any Christian,to submit to in silence ? As you justly remark, had I not been a Catholic each infamy never would have been imputed to me. Nay, further, had I not 'been a conscientious and earnest Catholic, determinedly adhering to what I had been instructed was my religion, I never should have been in my present melancholy position. My Scotch marriage would have been consummated, and thus made valid. One of the most able judges held that the Irish marriage acted as a mid impediment to the validity of the Scotch ; hence, on the one hand, I lose the legal marriage by my conscientious scrub pies, whilst, on the other hand, I am told those pretended scruples were a disgrace to humanity. Bat— I argue not 'gainst Heaven's hand or will, Nor bate one jot of heart or hope, but still bear up, And steer right onwards. "That I conceive to be my duty in the faith I am placed. "In respect to the reference to oath the process now before the Scotch court, and which will doubtless be adjudicated on and after the Christmas recess, permit me to correct your assumption that it consists of a mere declaration whether Major Yel verton did or did not go through the marriage cere mony in Scotland. If my last chance depended upon thilt, as you truly remark, it would be but a slender hope indeed, and would Seareely have been ad. vised by the able counsel conducting my case. Reference to oath, however, admits of the most searching cross•examination over the whole length and breadth of the case, embracing all the letters, all the evidence previously given, and any contradictions in this would entail perjury and its consequences. You may recollect that in the evidence given upon the Irish trial Major Yelverton admitted verbatim the whole of the marriage ser. vice at the chapel of Kil►owes, and that he intended to keep those vows, and denied that it was a mockery. For the information of those who have not read the Scotch case, I may mention that the whole of this evidence is therein denied. Had the same admissions been made in the Scotch case tha were made in the Irish, my counsel are of opinion that they would have sufficed to prove a Scotch marriage. It is therefore easy to draw an inference of what the examination may result in.—l remain yours faithfully, "THERESA YELVERTON, " Oxenford Hotel, Edinburgh, Dec. 20, 1864." Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service. (From the Civil Service Gazette.) Home Office—A sub-inspectorship of factories has become vacant,by the death of Mr SAvil Kent. Mr Harry King Evans has been appointed junior clerk in the office of the receiver for the metropolis tan police district. The Admiralty—Mr John Russell has been ap pointed to be clerk in the director of works depart ment, Somerset House. Mr J. G. Colde has been appointed to be clerk and accountant in the works department, Somerset House. The Post Office—Mr W. Wakefield has been ap pointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr J. Kingsmull has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank depart ment. Mr John J. Hodgson has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank depart• ment. Mr T. G. Vanghton has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank depart• ment. Mr R. J. Mahon has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mrl. Leach has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr F. C. Sadler has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings banks department. Mr Denison M. Wilkinson has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Mr John Pott has been appointed to be a temporary clerk in the savings bank department. Custome.—Mr . George Frederick Dickens has been appointed an out-door officer, London. Mr John Ord has been appointed an out-door officer, London, Mr William Tracey has been appointed an out-door officer, London. Mr Henry Brown, outdoor officer, has been promoted to be an exa mining officer, 6th class, London. Mr James W. Tamsett, out-door ofEcer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr Hod sall Manwaring, out-door officer, has been pro moted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr. Walter Furlong, out-door officer, has been pro- moted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr F. Healy, out-door officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr Joseph Salmon, outdoor officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Mr E. W. Jacobs, outdoor officer, has been promoted to be an examining officer, 6th class, London. Inland Revenue—Stamp and Tax Branch—The surveyorship of taxes, Leeds, 2d district, has become vacant by the' death of Mr N. R. Lucas. Mr A. Bindon has been appointed packer in the warehouse, Somerset Mose. Excise Branch—Mr William Jacques, supervisor, Antrim district, Belfast collection, has been ap pointed supervisor of Newport district, Southamp ton collection. Mr A. Priddis, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Antrim district, Belfast col lection. Mr C. Chatterton Trim, examiner has been appointed supervisor of Hinckley district,:Leicester collection, CO VENT Our market is seasonably vegetables. The trade was s S. d. 8. d. Pine apples 8 oto 10 0 Foreign do., each 0 oto 0 0 Grapes,per lb 5 oto 10 0 Foreign do 0 oto 0 0 Melons Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 oto 3 6 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 4 oto 8 0 Lemons, per 100 3 6to 7 0 Gooseberries hf Bye° 0 to 0 0 strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 4 oto 5 0 Shallots, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz 1 3 to 2 0 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 Ind ditto 2 OSo 3 6 Parsley - , per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 1 oto 2 01 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 3to 3 01 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli 0 10 to 1 3 i Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 6 Potatoes, per ton 60 oto ,20 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr cwt 0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms, p pt. 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 , Cos left, score .. 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers ooto 0 0) Mint and savory..o oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 01 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, h.-sy. 0 oto 0 0 ' Tomatoes, 0 oto 0 0 French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 2 oto 2 6 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 eto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Spinach 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Brussels sprouts 1 6So 0 , I Seakale, per bun. 2 oto 3 0 POULTRY. Turkeys, Cs 6d to 60s Od; geese, is Od to 108 Od each ; goslings, Os to Os Od ; ducks, 3s Od to 5s Od ; ducklings, Os Od to Os Od; rabbits, is Od to is 9d each; wild do., 9d to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 9d each; Surrey fowls, 9s Od to 14s Od ; chickens, 7s to 108 Od ; barn door fowls, 3s Od to 7s Cd ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; ptarmigan, Os to Os Od each ; pheasants, 3s Od to 4s Od ; partridges, is Od to 2s ; woodcocks, as to 3s 6d; snipes, Od to is Od; teal, is 6d to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to 4s Od ; widgeons, 2s Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os 6d to is each ; guinea fowls, 3s Od to bs Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, is 24 to is 4d ; English, is 4d to is 6d per lb ; English eggs, 12s Od to its Od ; French do., 8s Od to lis Od per 100 ; leverets, 2s ocl to 2s 6d ; grouse, 2s 61 to 3s Od. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os Od to Os Od ; trout, Od Eo Od ; eels, 8d to is ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Gd per Ib ; turbots, 5s Od to 25s ; cod, 7s Od to 21s Od ; brills, 2s Od to Gs Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, is Od to Os 6d ; lobsters, is Od to 3s; crabs,Gd to 2s 6d; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each ; soles, 6d to 29 6d per pair ; common oysters, 14s to 4, s; natives, 90s to —s per bush. ; whitings, is Od to 2s; Vcldocks, 3s 6d to 4s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; flounders, Os 01 per dozen; mackerel, Os to 50s per 120 ; fresh herrings lOs to Os per 120 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and ten h, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 5s Od; mutton, 38 8d to 5s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; and pork, 3s 8d to 6s Od per Sibs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 58 ; mutton, 38 8d to 54 Od ; veal, 43 oto 5s Od ; and pork, 3s 8d to 6s Od per Bibs, by the earcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 60 to 7d , of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 24d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to aid ; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 4d ; 381 b to 961 b, 3d to 4id ; '96lb to 1011 b, 3d to 4id ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 40 to sd. Horse hides, 9s Od to lOs Od ; calf skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 7s 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, lOs 6d to 13s Od; half.•breds, 9s Od to lOs 6d; Downs, 6s 9d to 83 Od; lambs, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 48 to £5 5s Od ; clover, £5 5s to £6 6s Od ; and straw, 8s to £1 12s per load, Trade firm. CUMRHIRLAND—Meadow hay, 44 4e to S 5 5s Od; clover, £5 bs to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £1 8e to £1 12a per load. A fair demand. WHITECHAPEL,—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 56 Od ; olover, £5 5s to £6 68 Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 123 per load, Trade steady. COAL MARK ET. Prtoes of Coal per Ton at the Close of the market. s. d. , Walls R. Cowpen Hartley 19 3 i R. 0, H oly well 19 6 Tunstall .... Hastings Hartley ....19 3 Haswell West Hartley 19 3 Hatton 23 6 Wylam 19 6, Hough Hall 23 0 Ships at market, 29; sold, 29, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Dec. 24.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; moderate breeze, axd fine weather, but rather cloudy and cold. PILL, Deo. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Penelope, for Africa. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Volun teer, from Havre for Liverpool, with loss of jibboom and other damage. OFF DOTER, Dec. 22,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Margarei from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, Dec. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Eagle, from Rio Grande, TROON, Dec. M.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Portia, for Demerara. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady Scholeficld, from Callao for Liverpool—Mary Jane, from Demerara for Liverpool. OFF CROOKHAVEN, The. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived , China, etQamor, from Now Vnrk. , - . CLYDE, Dec. 23.—Wind WAW.—Arrived—Morning Star, from Old Calabar—Thistle, from Quebec—Amoor, from Mauritius. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived—Frederike, from Gothenburg—Moselle, from Antwerp—Onega, from Dantzie. - . _ . DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed, back of Goodwin Sands, on list--Fahrenheit, from Dant ale, Sailed, in tow—Ciminar and Briton's Pride, for London. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Railways. Mlles Opened. Reoelpts. 1864. Belfast and N. Counties 136 Belfast and County Down Blyth and Tyne 2O Bristol and Exeter 1214 Caledonian Cambrian Cockermouth & Working,ton B4 Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 324 Cork and Youghal 6l Cornwall 654 Deeside , 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 . Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 914 911 Furness, &c Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E. Union Great Northern 382 353 Great North of Scotland 6B 68 61 t. N orthn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7l 714 rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 387 3731 Great Western 1222 1169 Hull and Hurnsea l3 Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7l 1064 Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 1191 Irish North-Western 145 145 Kent Coast 27 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 103 Limerick and Ennis... 241 24f Limerick and Foynes 2 26 Llanelly l4 46/ Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5 6 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &B. Coast 2671 2611 London, Chatham, & Dover 724 224 Do. Metropolitan Extension lit 104 Lou., Tilbury, & Southend lian.,Sheifieicl,& Lincolnsh Ranch. S.Jun.&Altrincham Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 65 11 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. • Monkland 7 14 714 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 11 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee .'... N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 1995 North London 9 9 North Staffordshire 254 264 Rhymney 1 94 194 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l 3B 132 4 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 South Devon South-Eastern 306 306 Tait Vale 57 67 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. - 1 0 Vale of Neath 434 434 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 West Cornwall 274 274 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL 524 5. W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 204 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 4 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish ' lOBl Eastern of France 1176 Eastern Bengal —• . 110 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1335 Great Central of Belgium 221 Great Indian Peninsula 5)3 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 121 282 t . 1864. 1863. £ Z 1,901 2.140 670 642 1,951 1,255 6,337 6,324 19,0:9 17,768 1,496 1,448 311 257 320 352 110 129 374 379 1,431 1,350 298 218 1,329. 1.441 1275 1.196 275 196 2,155 2,07) 2,983 2,826 8,251 7,537 3•,364 30,261 33,361 33,262 1,625 1,336 '446 650 7,639 7,774 61,975 61,039 1,248 1,036 1,431 1,093 1,6J1 1,092 790 235 34,210 35,624 155 154 163 134 502 493 386 370 106,104 101,322 1,719 1,1362 21,30 L 21,298 16,530 15,854 4,718 4,713 1,200 875 1,154 1,091 17,017 17,487 1,297 1,231 1,381 1,155 2,2,1. 1,936 48,420 42,428 4,662 4,652 1,641 1,687 2,966 2,075 19,561 19,313 59,355 54,938 3, )45 3,060 8,513 8,33 26i 185} 189 1081 L 428 966 950 6,154 6,179 4,846 4,823 828 658 3,593 3,5413 19,932 19,388 5,310 6,1,05 2,513 2,404 147 135 2,727 2,320 453 802 1,183 1.141 754 738 4,340 3,705 565 552 987 932 891 948 ........., ...,.,....- --- - _._ _ _ Madras . . 537 Madrid, Saraiossa &Alicant 683 Northern of Canada _._........ . Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1067 Paris and Orleans 1616 Pernambuco Scinde lO5 Do. Punjab, &c 32 South Austrian Southern of France ..... ...... 623 Victoria Welland West Flanders 75 West & iNi- %Vesta of France lO4l 37,648 32,219 - - 345 822 6,3 :1 6,360 5,358 3,861 68,475 63,221 25,466 25,864 6,591 6,316 5381 131 4,561 3,807 79 527 512 31 5 12,367 12,975 448 6,392 4,590 650 17,185 17,223 91 1,810 1,088 697 60,184 67,0.4 41 1,059 888 481 546 345 1781 139,088 136,682 1618 67,418 68,160 771 669 518 105 2,00 1,533 32 291 215 1505 5',901 48,180 770 28,239 ;7,381 196 10,184 8,013 25 75 1,021 969 42,962 $8,458 N ORT II AMERICAN AND WEST INDIA STATION.— The British fleet on the North American station has sailed from Halifax for the West Indies. The flagship will winter at Jamaica instead of Bermuda, as usual, owing to the yellow fever prevailing in the islands. The Challenger will remain at Halifax until January, when she will be relieved by a smaller vessel of the squadron and proceed to England, 1863. SPORT. :GENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER —FRIDAY. WATERLOO COURSING CUP. 20 to 1 agst Mr Spinks's nomination (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lord Uffington's nomination (offered) 22 to I agst Mr Haywood's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr Jardine's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 aget Mr Blanchard's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr Bake's nomination (taken and offered) 33 to I aget Mr Dire Campbell's nomination (offered) 44 to 1 agst Mr Stocker's nomination taken and offered) THE DERBY. 5 to 1 agat Liddington (offered) 500 to 50 aget Breadalbane (taken) 15 to 1 agst The Duke (nominal) 100 to 7 aget Chattanooga (offered) 22 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (offered) 25 to 1 ag3t Brother to Millie (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lorgdown (taken) 33 to 1 agst Ariel (offered) 40 to 1 agst Zacil ezi (taken) 66 to 1 agst Congress (taken) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865. JANUARY. Manchester .. 2 FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring.... ~.. 21 I Nottingham Spring .... 28 MARCH. Derby Spring 2 Liverpool Spring Shrewsbury Spring Doncaster Spring l4 Warwick Spring Chelmsford Spring Northampton 4 Croston Park 7 Durham l7 Newmarket Cruven Catterick Bridge Thirsk 2l Epsom Spring . 25 Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1 Chester York Spring Salisbury .... lB Bath 2 3 Epsom , `,..`unarner 3O Epsom Summer (con.) 1 Manchester 7 Ascot Alexandra Park.. 2O Hampton Newton Newcastle 27 Summer Worcester SLY. Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract Nottingham Summer .. 18 Chesterfield Goodwood AUG Huntingdon Reading Egham Oxford York August 22 Plymouth .. 24 Lichfield Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer .. 30 I Weymouth :MEER. SEPT. Weymouth (continued), 1 Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon Richmond .. 19 Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket let October 26 IBM?. OCTC Northallerton 5 I Newmarket Second Oct. 9 NovE Worcester Autumn I Newmarket Houghton Worcester Autumn ;MEER. (continued) 1 Now ready, G. SRELTON'S Derby Guide, is Glenie, Connaught -terrace, Hyde-park ; Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street; and all agents• LOCIZT'S Derby Analysis at a glance shows what the field for the Blue Riband will be selected from ; and con tains also selections for all the great three-year-old contests, selections for Manchester meeting, Waterloo Cup, &c. Price one shilling; had from Sunday Times office, and a ll the usual agents, or from E. Locket, Box L 2, Manchester. FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—& serious collision has taken place this week nine miles south by east of the Lizard. The smack Lemon, of Padstow, came into collision wit h the schooner Catherine, of Barmouth. The latter vessel sank almost immediately, and five seamen were drowned. The captain was saved by clinging to a rope until he was picked up by the Lemon. The lost vessel was laden with slates, The cause of the accident has not yet been stated. ARREST OF MR S. HARDINGE.—A few months since we announced the marriage of Mr S. Hardinge, an ex-lieutenant in the navy of the Northern States of Ame rica, to Miss Belle Boyd, a young lady whose patriotic devotion to the South had induced her to take an active part in the warfare raging between the two sections of the American republic, and who, under circumstances which gave proof of much courage and devotion, repeatedly pene trated into the Northern lines and returned to her friends the bearers of important information. The marriage took place under romantic circumstances, as the lie tenant, smitten with the charms of Miss Boyd, connived at her escape from the vessel in which she was being cony eyed a prisoner; and afterwards, resigning his commission in the Northern service, followed her to London, where they were united at St. James's Church. Wp now learn that Mr Hardinge has been captured, He had crossed the At lantic to visit his friends and relatives, and in the,hope that he would be able to bring to Europe his wife's younger sister, who, residing with her mother at Martinsburg, in Virginia, was exposed to the brutality of the Northern soldiery, and was daily in danger of meeting with the grossest outrages at their hands. So far as is at present known he was seized, while at Mrs Boyd's house, by General Stephenson, commanding the post at Harper's Ferry, and is now lodged in the very prison at Washington in which his wife was confined during some portion of her adventurous career, The danger which Miss Boyd ran may be estimated when it is stated that the country around her mother's house has been repeatedly the scene of desperate engagements, that the estate itself has been laid waste by the Northern troops, and that all the male members of the fetidly are absent in the service of the South, the only person left to protect the mother and daughter being an old negro. THE ROYAL " BARON OF BEEF."—On Thursday the royal baron of beef was roasted before the great kitchen fire at Windsor Castle, and forwarded yesterday to Osborne, where, with the " boar's head" and "game pie," it will deck the Christmas sideboard of her Majesty. VOLTAIRE'S HEART.—The evening Moniteur gives the following account of the translation of the heart of Voltaire to the Bibliotbeque Imperiale, which event has pro voked commentaries of the most divers kinds :—" When Voltaire died, his heart, after a post-mortem examination, was extracted from his body on the 31st of May, 1778, by order of the ,Marquis De Villette, in whose house he stayed after his return to Paris, and wherein he died. The friend, the admirer of the great writer, desired to save this heart from the destruction which death occa sions, and it was placed in a metallic vessel and steeped in a chemical preparation calculated to preserve it from decay. When, in execution of the law of May 30, 1791, which enacted that " the ashes of Voltaire should be trans • erred to the church of St. Genevieve, where they should receive the funereal honours due to great men," the funeral procession of Voltaire passed through the streets of Paris on July 11 of the same year, a halt was made before the mansion ;of the Marquis De Villette, situated at the corner of the Rue de Beaune and the Quai Voltaire, and the Illoniteur of July 13 records the fact that the reason for the pause was that Voltaire's heart was there. Shortly afterwards the heart was re• moved to the Chateau de Vilette, in the arrondissement of Pont St Maxence(Oise) where it ever since remained, and was kept with veneration. But the Marquis de Vilette, hie widow, and his son are dead; and their heirs having con• sidered it a duty to give up this relic to the State, M. Leon Duval, a member of the order of Advocates of the Lupe. rial Court of Paris, having taken the Emperor's plea sure, 415 Majesty desired that a national asylum should be given in the Bibliotheque Imperiale to the heart of Voltaire, to the end that it may henceforth belong to France, pursuant to the intent of the law of nth May, 1791. In obedience to his Majesty's orders on Friday last, the 16th of this montit h M. Duruy, the minister of public in struction, :proceeded to the Bibliotheque Imperials, and there in presence of the Administrator-General of the estab lishment, accompanied by members of the Consultative Committee, he received from the hands of M. Leon Duval the heart of Voltaire enclosed in a recipient of gilt metal, on which is engraved these words :—" Le cur do Voltaire, mort a Paris le XXX Moi MDCCLXXV III." The Minister declared that he took possession of this pre- cious deposit, and ordered that it should be provisionally kept with all the respect due to the mortal remains of this great man, in the best part of the Bibliotheque Itope riale—that is to say, the department of medals--until the time when the new works shall be sufficiently advanced to permit of its definitive installation between the departments of manuscripts and prints, on the first floor of the Rotunda, between the junction of the Rues do Richelieu and Neuve des Petits Champs, where a room is destined to receive not only the heart of ,Voltaire, but also the original statue by Hendon, the medals struck in his honour, and the manu script correspondence and printed works of the immortal writer. Proces verbal (1. e. a written record) was at once drawn up of this delivery and reception." The Official Gazette of B ivaria, in confirming the statements made by several journals relative to an autograph letter addressed by King Louis to the King of Hanover on the question of the Duchies, announces that the reply received from Hanover is conceived in the most friendly terms. A communication from Berlin remarks that to deceive oneself as to the views of the Hanoverian Government would be unwise, as since the separation of the Duchies from Denmark Hanover has not concealed her antipathy for the cause of the Prince of Augustenburg, and has supported in a visible manner the candidateship of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. If, however, the change an• nounced on the part of Prussia is confirmed, there is no doubt that Hanover will also modify her dispositions. The Courrier du Bas•lßhin states that the cub, tivation of hops has been greatly developed in that department within the last seven years, but more especially in the cantons of Birchwiller and Hague usu. In the former, the area under this crop in 1857 was 743,0r2 perches (about 4,650 English acres), but in 1864 it had increased to 1,509,182 perches, or nearly double. The number of planters had also risen in the same period from 900 to 1,602. It is estimated that the cultivation of hops in the Bas Rhin now produces at least 10,000,000 f. annually. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Deo. 23.—The market for cotton goods generally has continued to improve since Tuesday, and on Wednesday and yesterday a good deal of business was done, with a gradual advance in prices. Shipping yarns are gradually strength ening in price, and to-day—though there has been no excitement—higher prices have been paid for all descriptions as compared with yesterday. For home trade yarns the market is very strong, with a fair business at Id to ld per lb. advance on the rates of Tuesday morning. In cloth there has been a good business, with gradually improving prices ever since Tuesday. Yesterday a rather consider able business was (-Meted, and probably more would have been done but for the check constantly aris ing out of the advance. The quotations of buyers have been constantly a little in advance of the prices. Buyers have been willing to give, and the bulk of the business has been in goods ready fcr immediate shipment, or for which an early delivery could be guaranteed. Today there has been hardly so much business as during the two preceding days, but the tone of the market is exceedingly firm and the inquiry still keeps good. The princi. pal demand has been for cloths suitable to the mar. kets of India, but other descriptions have shared to a fair extent in the attention of buyers. NOTTINGHAM ; Dec. 23 . —There was a fair attend ance at this Exchange to-day. The demand for lace yarns, although slow, was firm, and prices had en upward tendency. For hosiery yarns rates had also a tendency to stiften. Silks were held at pre. viou3 rates, but there was not much doing. For brown nets the demand was very flat, but prices were much the same as heretofore. LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening, WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 23, sth Regiment of Lancers—Cyril William Bowdler Bell, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Alexand. r Ewing, who retires. Bth Hussars—Lieutenant Albert Charles Wood, from the 79th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Jamieson, who ex, changes. 9th Lancers- 4 -The Hon. Edward Francis John Preston to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Harcourt James Lees, whose appointment has been cancelled. 14th Hussars—George William Douglas liempson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Percy Dodgem, who retires. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Thomas Arthur John Harrison to be Captain, vice Charles Pau lett Rotton, deceased—Lieutenant Charles P. Theobald to be Second Captain, vice John Vibart, retired upon half-pay—Lieutenant Frederick Howlett to be Second Captain, ♦ice Charles George Luard, deceased —Lieu tenant Charles Mills Molony to be Second Captain, vice Harrison— Gentleman Cadet Charles M. Smith, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Theobold—Gentleman Cadet Cecil Coles Dyce, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice How lett Gentleman Cadet Arthur Wellesley White, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Rogers Itvers, deceased—Gentleman Cadet Wm. Stewart Poole, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Molony—Second Captain Peter Edwatd Hill to be Adjutant, vice Vaughan, appointed to the. Royal Horse Artillery. let Regiment of Foot—Baron George Booth, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wm. Collett Sandars, who retires. 2d Foot—Wm. Gun Collis, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur. chase, vice Lavallin Robert Iltid Thomas; transferred to the 41st Foot. 16th Foot—Ensign Reinhold Baker Bald to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Frank Jefferson, who retires—Gentle man Cadet George Alban Lewes, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Heath, transferred to the 33d Foot—Henry Eyre, Coote, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bald. 18th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Malcolm Alfred Laing, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur ,.,chase, vice Heath, promoted. 22d Fo'ot—GentleniL Cadet William Charles Francis Molyneux, from the Royal Military College, to be En. sign, without purchase, vice Woleeley, promoted. 23d Foot—Lieut. George William Adolphus Fitz George to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Charles Cameron Lees, who resigns the appointment. 26th Foot—Lieutenant William Henry Salwey to be Cap tain by purchase, vice Captain. and Brevet Major Edward Lister Green, who retires—Edward Howarti Molyneux Edward Brunker to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Salwey. 31st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur Fitzßoy Hart, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Macefield, promoted. 37th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Augustus Charles Frederick Fitz-George, from the Royal Military College, to be En sign, without purchase, vice Street, promoted. 41st Foot— Lieutenant Francis Michell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Captain and Brevet-Major Frederick Cherburgh Bligh, who retires—Ensign Arthur Drum mond Currie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Michell —Ensign Lavallin Robert Iltid Thomas, from the 24 Foot, to be Ensign, vice Currie. 44th Foot—Ensign Home Seton Gordon, from the 76th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Lloyd Fenton, deceased. 49th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Edward Lonsdale, from the 60th Poet, to be Lieutenant. vice Berne, who exchanges. 57th Foet—Arthur Collins, Gent., to be Ensign, by put.- chase, vice George Cummin, who retires. 60th Foot—Lieutenant Philip Julius H. A. Barnes, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lonsdale, why exchanges. 75th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Robert Edmund Walpole, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase. vice Heycock, promoted. 76th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Cookson Fife, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Gordon, tra ns f erre d to the 44th Foot. 77th Foot—Ensign William Forbes Gatacre to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Charles B. Saunders, who retires —Francis Peilip Ferguson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gatacre. 79th Foot—Lieut. Lachlan Foster Jamieson, from the Bth Hussars, to be Lieutenant, vice Wood, who exchanges. 81st Foot—Lieutenant William Brodnax Knight, from the 84th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Kerans, who ex changes. 84th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas George Kerans, from the 81st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Knight, who ex changes. 99th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Glendower Blaxiand, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Charles Dew, deceased. 100th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Walter Russell Langton Brackenbury, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Jackson, promoted. Ist West India RtgirnPnt—Lieut. Fergus M'licuzie has been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commis ion—William Richard Backas, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. vice Knox Rowan Niven, pro moted. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign Turner Warner Bert to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nicholas Thomas CuffJe Herbert, transferred to the 4Th West India Regis tnent. UNATTACHED—Captain and Brevet Colonel John Williams Reynolds, trom half pay Unattached, late Deputy Adju tant General, Jamaica, to be Major, without purchase. MEDICAL DIARTMENT.—Acting Assistant Surgeon Pa trick Kane Kiernan has been permitted to resign his ap. pointment. BREVET. Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Williams, C. 8., 4th Foot, to have the local rank of Major General while serving in the East Indies. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clerk, of the Royal Artillery, having completed the qualifying service in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, to be Colonel, under the provieions of the Royal Warrant of Oct, 14,1858. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Henry Leigh, 61st Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. The following promotions to take place consequent on the death of General Sir George Turner, .K.C.8., Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery, on the 9th December, 1864, viz : Major Thomas Woollaston White, 16th Lancers. to be Lieutenant Colonel. Captain James Ainslie Stewart, Royal Marine Light In fantry, to be Major. The undermentioned officers, upon half-pay, of the Royal Marines, to have the honorary rank of Major, under the provision of the Order in Council of 16th April, 1861 : —Captain Henry Atkins M'Callum, Barrack-master a t Gosport; and Captain Henry Iluthatu M`Carthy, Barrack., master at Woolwich. ADMIRALTY, Dec, 20. The undermentioned officers have bese promoted to be Retired Captains under the provisions of the Orders in Council of let August, 1860, and 9th July, 1864, with seniority, from the ist July, 1864:—Commander John Ilene. Gennys and Commander George 6mythe, Commander Richard Williams has been placed on the Retired List of his rank under the provisions of the same Orders in Council, from the Ist October, 1864. The following promotions have been made :—Mr John Richard Agates to be Engineer in the Fleet, and Mr Cor. nelius Hart Healey to be First Class Assistant Engineer in the Fleet. Course of Exchange,—Yesterday, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 11 1S 12 181 Antwerp -..— 25 52f 25 57 1 Brussels — 25 521 25 SD. L 13 7 1 13 8 4 Parisb..imurg Short. 25 15 25 22i 3 Months. 25 50 Ditto 25 521 Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —120 i Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 291 291 Berlin — Madrid - 46 46} Cadiz — 47 47# Leghorn •— 25 73 25 75 Mi1an.... Genoa .......... 25 70 25 75 25 75 Naples ............ 25 70 Palermo ........... 2 5 25 70 25 75 25 75 Foreign Messina.. .; extca G ) D o i l l a i sii. .1 .. .3 : : : : . 5. ( . s . t . au — dard)..... 7 . o per oz , £ O 3 1 0 7 0 9 0 0 0 Siher in Bar s (Standard) THE ►STORMY WEATHER IN THE NORTEL—A storm warning came down to the Tyne on Thursday night that a gale might be expected from the north; but at that time the weather was very stormy, the wind blowing half a gaie from the E.S.E., with a strong sea. Yesterday the wind on the coast of Northumberland blew from the south ward, and several large laden ships, which have been de• tained with the numerous fleet of laden vessels, sailed from the Tyne. The weather is extremely cold in the north, and snow is reported to be lying a foot deep about 30 mike oath - west of the Tyne. •_-___